Stefan Högberg wrote:
It seems like the words in 'formula' are going to be used in calculations (in for example spreadsheat). I wonder if it would not be more correct to leave these words untranslated, as they are mathematical functions that should be universal. Usually, this kind of mathematical functions have the same name (the English name) all over the world.
No, usually they are translated. Tip: do as Excel does (copying Excel is not the rule, but in this case it's very important that users can find the names they are used to). See
http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~trieschn/excel/excel.html
If mathematical functions in spreadsheets are not universal, then there will be compatibility problems if spreadsheets are shared between different languages (installations of OpenOffice in different languages), and that may create problems in international cooperation.
No. If I write formulas in Italian in Calc Italian, they are written to the file in English; and when you open the file with Calc Swedish, they are translated English->Swedish on the fly. So everything works as expected.
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